Constituency
18. Raiganj
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1957
WB-RAIGANJ
INC 24.6%won by 1.3%INC 23.4%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin held roughly steady from 1.2% to 1.3%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 48.0% between them, down from 61.2% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
85,129
Margin
1,076
1.26%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1SYAMA PRASAD BARMAN (SC)Indian National Congress · INC20,96624.6%
- 2HAZI BADIRUDDIN AHMMADIndian National Congress · INC19,89023.4%
- 3NISHITHA NATH KUNDU (SC)Praja Socialist Party · PSP19,26322.6%
- 4PIJUSH KANTI DASCommunist Party of India · CPI12,83015.1%
- 5JATINDRA NATH PRAMANIKIndependent · IND12,18014.3%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–INC swing
- 0.0%
- INC share
- 31.2% → 24.6%
- INC share
- 31.2% → 24.6%
- Turnout
- — → —